Luke 20

¹And it came to pass in one of the days, when he was teaching the people in the Temple & evangelizing, the chief Priests & the Scribes with the Ancients assembled,

²and spake saying to him, Tell us, in what power doest thou these things? Or, who is he that hath given thee this power?

³And Jesus answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word. Answer me,

⁴The baptism of John was it from Heaven, or of men?

⁵But they thought within themselves, saying: That if we say, From Heaven, he will say: Why then did you not believe him?

⁶But if we say, of men, the whole people will stone us: for they are certain that John is a Prophet.

⁷And they answered that they knew not whence it was.

⁸And Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell you in what power I do these things.

⁹And he began to say to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, & let it out to husbandmen: and he was from home a long time.

¹⁰And in time he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Who beating him sent him away empty.

¹¹And again he sent another servant. But they beating him also and reproachfully abusing him, sent him away empty.

¹²And again he sent the third: who wounding him also, cast him out.

¹³And the Lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: perhaps when they shall see him, they will reverence him.

¹⁴Whom when the husbandmen saw, they thought within themselves, saying: This is the heir, let us kill him, that the heritage may be ours.

¹⁵And casting him forth out of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the Lord of the vineyard do to them?

¹⁶He will come, and will destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

¹⁷But he beholding them said: What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become into the head of the corner?

¹⁸Every one that falleth upon this stone, shall be quashed: and upon whom it shall fall, it shall break him to powder.

¹⁹And the chief Priests and Scribes sought to lay hands upon him that hour: and they feared the people, for they knew that he spake this similitude to them.

²⁰And watching, they sent spies which should feign themselves just: that they might take him in his talk, and deliver him to the principality and power of the President.

²¹And they asked him, saying: Master, we know that thou speakest and teachest rightly; and thou doest not accept person, but teachest the way of God in truth.

²²Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Cæsar, or not?

²³But considering their guile, he said to them: Why tempt you me?

²⁴Shew me a penny. Whose image hath it and inscription? They answering said: Cæsar's.

²⁵And he said to them: Render therefore the things that are Cæsar's, to Cæsar: and the things that are God's, to God.

²⁶And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and marveling at his answer, they held their peace.

²⁷And there came certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is a resurrection, and they asked him,

²⁸saying: Master, Moyses gave us in writing: If a man's brother die having a wife, and he have no children, that his brother take her to wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

²⁹There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

³⁰And the next took her, & he died without child.

³¹And the third took her. In like manner also all the seven, and they left no seed, and died.

³²Last of all the woman died also.

³³In the resurrection therefore, whose wife shall she be of them? Sithens the seven had her to wife.

³⁴And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

³⁵But they that shall be counted worthy of that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor take wives;

³⁶neither can they die any more, for they are equal to Angels: and they are the sons of God, seeing they are the sons of the resurrection.

³⁷But that the dead rise again, Moyses also shewed, beside the bush, as he calleth the Lord: The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

³⁸For God is not of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

³⁹And certain of the Scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou hast said well.

⁴⁰And further they durst not ask him anything.

⁴¹But he said to them: How say they that Christ is the son of David,

⁴²and David himself saith in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand,

⁴³till I put thine enemies, the footstool of thy feet?

⁴⁴David then calleth him Lord: and how is he his son?

⁴⁵And all the people hearing him, he said to his Disciples:

⁴⁶Beware of the Scribes, that will walk in robes, and love salutations in the market-place, and the first chairs in the synagogues, and the chief rooms in feasts.

⁴⁷Which devour widows' houses: feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.